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Decayed Likeness. Turner's romanticism was directed more at his art than his private life. A reclusive bachelor till his death in 1851, he was more a stodgy old crumpet than the philanderer who, several biographers have hinted, fathered five illegitimate children. Though fame attracted him, he dodged the patrician world of fox hunts and fancy clubs, ended up living in a dilapidated London town house, cluttered with what he called his "darlings"-his paintings-or in a little Thames-side refuge where he was thought by neighbors to be a certain Admiral Booth, husband of the landlady...
...felt nothing till he got to my bare legs," recalls Ethel. "It was deliciously cool. Then it began to get warm. In five minutes, it was hot." Inside the 1-inch of plaster, her body heat was building up at the same time the plaster itself was heating in the process of drying. "You're doing very well," said her husband reassuringly. "I'm burning up!" cried Ethel, as the plaster dried. To cool her, Husband Scull put a cold compress on her forehead...
...Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, 'Nix, Nix'; I'm gonna stick around till I get my kicks"--Elvis Presley's "Jail House Rock...
...window of the Versailles to collect myself. And looking in the window I saw one of those marble eggs they sell there. And that calmed me. I had a roommate once who, mad with longing, went to that store and bought a marble egg, and walked all over Cambridge till he found a girl to give it to. Just stopped and handed it to her. On the steps of Widener, as I remember. "Why?" she said. "Because you're beautiful and it's spring," he said. He was that way. They lasted until the next winter...
...manacles for as much as two or three years before the bishop bothered to bring him to trial. Usually the prisoner was beaten by his jailers; often he was put to the rack. A nasty bishop named Boner once held a prisoner's hand over a candle flame "till the sin ews burst, and the water did spurt into the dean's face." Accused heretics not infrequently died of mistreatment before they could be executed, and quite often went insane. But according to Foxe they seldom recanted...